Junior Fellow (she/her)
Fields of Study
- Race, Ethnicity & Colonialism
- Migration
Areas of Interest
- Carceral control
- Migrant detention
- Crimmigration
Biography
Kate Motluk is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation focuses on the recent use of the Bibby Stockholm barge as a site of asylum-seeker accommodation in the United Kingdom. Prior to graduate school, Kate worked in the refugee non-profit sector in Toronto.
Selected publications
- Motluk, K. (2024). "The imagined island: Colonialism and constructed remoteness on Diego Garcia." The Geographical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.1258
- Motluk, K. (2024). Abolition as a Tool of Decolonization: Undoing Violence in Canadian Carceral Spaces. In E. Grafton, J. Melancon, A. Parker, and I.O. Fasunhan (Eds.), Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths (University of Regina Pressbooks).
Education
MA, Wilfrid Laurier University
BA, University of Toronto